| Robert K. Yin | |||||||
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| Yin Kuo-zuir | |||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 應國瑞 | ||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 应国瑞[1] | ||||||
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Robert Kuo-zuir Yin is an American social scientist and President of COSMOS Corporation, known for his work oncase study research as well as onqualitative research.[2][3] Over the years, his work on case study research has been frequently cited.Google Scholar listed it as the second most cited methodological work, qualitative or quantitative, over a 20-year period[4]
Yin was born and grew up in New York City as the son of Yin Huo-Chin (应和春;Yīng Héchūn) and How Loo Yuin (夏璐;Xià Lù).[1]: 作者简介 His maternal grandfather isXia Ruifang, one of the founders ofCommercial Press.[1]: 1, 中文版前言
Yin obtained his BA in history,magna cum laude, fromHarvard College in 1962, and successfully pursued his graduate studies atMassachusetts Institute of Technology, where he obtained his PhD in brain and cognitive sciences in 1970.[5]
While at graduate school, Yin published his first articles on face recognition, in the field of experimental psychology and neuroscience. Later, his research interests shifted to the use of case study research and qualitative research in public policy and related topics. An exemplary example of a case study, relying on both qualitative and quantitative methods, covered organizational innovations in public services.[6]
More broadly, Yin's text on case study research received the McGuffey Longevity Award in 2019, as a text that had been published for over 30 years and that was still in print.[7] During these years, the text has been translated into eight languages: Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Swedish, Romanian, Italian, Polish, and Portuguese.
In 1980, Yin founded COSMOS Corporation. He developed COSMOS as a research corporation for "applied research and evaluation, technical support, and management assistance aimed at improving public policy, private enterprise, and collaborative ventures."[8] The firm has completed research studies for such sponsors as: The MacArthur Foundation, the Mott Foundation, The Ford Foundation, the National Science Foundation, the US Dept. of Education, the US Dept. of Health and Human Services, the National Institute of Mental Health, and the National Institute of Justice.
Yin has also been affiliated with theUniversity of Copenhagen, the RAND Corporation, theUnited Nations Development Programme, and the School for International Service atAmerican University.[5][9] More recently, he has worked with faculty and students at the School of Education atSouthern New Hampshire University, as well as the Division of Special Education and disAbility Research atGeorge Mason University. He has collaborated regularly on evaluation projects withThe World Bank.[9]
